Live blog – Liquid Metal 12/12/09 7-8pm

8:05     Cannibal Corpse! Nice!!! Ok, now I’m off for real. See ya, suckers!

8:02     Thanks to Ian for going along with this, and keep up the good work!

8:01     Ok, time to sign off. I leave as Daath begins to play. It’s a nice band, but I don’t see what they bring to the table. They’re ok.

7:57     Can’t wait for Machine Head’s next album!

7:53     Machine Head covering Iron Maiden. It’s a very nice take on a classic song. Robb Flynn doesn’t have the voice of Bruce Dickinson, but that’s ok. He’s a great guitarist, and Bruce Dickinson is only second to Dio.

7:51     3 good songs in a row, we’re on a roll!!!

7:50     White Zombie… So many acid trips, so few songs…

7:50     Skeletonwitch’s riffing: incisive.

7:48     Skeletonwitch is awesome. Blabbermouth criticized the vocal, but I really like it.

7:47     Thanks for the plug Ian!

7:46     Sort of…

7:45     That song is from when Tom Araya could still sing. 🙂

7:44     It’s nice to have a deeper cut from Slayer. This is actually their best song from Diabolus in Musica. Someone at Liquid Metal knows their Slayer.

7:42     MOTHER FUCKING SLAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

7:40     Trap Them: don’t know these guys. Sounds harcore. Good filler, but I’m waiting for the next song. It’s just not metal enough for me, but if you’re into it, more power to you.

7:38     Please make it stop.

7:35     Metalcore is so passé. These guys should imitate the lemmings.

7:33     You can hear the talent, but there’s no hook for me. Just another band who clumsily integrates different influences. Jose, easy on the Ankla… 🙂

7:31     Ah, Ankla.

7:29     The new Fear Factory is just mehh. It’s 100% Fear Factory, minus the innovative factor they had when Demanufacture got big, way back in 1995. It may just be that specific song; I’ll definitely give the album a serious listen when it comes out in early 2010.

7:26     You did a great job, Ian. Thanks for dedicating this Bloody Roots to Dio!

7:24     I saw Lamb of God for the 3rd time a few weeks ago as part of the Metallica tour. They did a great show. I was never a big fan of Randy Blythe’s voice, but after I watched Killadelphia and Walk with Me in Hell, I got a much greater appreciation for the band, including Randy. I love the texture of the guitars, and the drumming is the definition of metal. 

7:21     Budweiser: the poor man’s best friend.

7:17     Ouch, Katatonia. Not my favorite band, but at least it’s not fucking IWABO or Horse the Band. At least Katatonia has something to bring to the table. Mood, melody. Actually I would not mind Liquid Metal having an hour of that stuff on a Sunday night.    

7:06     Heaven and Hell: excellent pick to conclude this special edition of Bloody Roots!

7:04     What, Ian has been touched internally by Dio?

7:02     Here we go folks, Bloody Roots is ending with a well deserved thanks to Dio for all he has done for the metal community.

Live blogging Liquid Metal: why? Here’s the answer.

6:47

Like everybody else, I listen to Liquid Metal because they play music that I like. But like everybody else, there’s much that I don’t like as well. So I thought it would be interesting to register my impressions as we progress through one hour of programming. I don’t expect them to play only stuff I like; it would be unreasonable to do so.

6:49

My best wishes to Dio for a prompt recovery. He’s the best voice in metal.

From IWABO to Horse the Band

Horse the Band, really?

I can see myself thinking this is sooooo cool, ’cause I’m like you know, so groovy dude. This is so original because I don’t know shit, bro. My knowledge of music is so good dude, I fucking know that this band is the shit ’cause they mix Nintendo and metal together. It’s the new trendy shit, man: Nintendocore. Yeah, they say it with a straightface, ’cause they’re soooo original. I love whatever is original, like Nintendocore. If it were generated randomy by some programming script, I’d love it still, as long as it’s original. Those time signatures allow me to claim credibility, even if they don’t make any sense.

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 IWABO is a joke, a fake product like a lot of trendy crap with a pathetic lack of real originality. Horse the Band comes up with a concept that appeals to people who think that a Nintendo NES is the epitome of music. Fine. Or not. They play their junk on SiriusXM. So, someone somewhere  thinks we are dumb enough to like Horse the Band; hey, we went along with IWABO… This is sad.

Best metal album of 2009

With only a few weeks away from the end of the year, it’s time to think about a list of the best albums of 2009.

I won’t publish my final list until the year is actually over, but as far as I’m concerned here’s one album that I think dominated all others this year:

Crack the Skye, Mastodon

It’s obvious to me that #1 should go to Crack the Sky, by Mastodon. I can appreciate technical mastery but without melody, however deviant, to me there’s no point. With this album, Mastodon display an amazing mastery of  melody and moods while staying 100% metal. Unlike bands like Opeth, the progressive element is completely fused. Instead of progressive chunks alternating with metal ones, the two genres blend seamlessly. Unlike Enslaved’s Vertebrae, which came out last year, the metal is always present even when the songs go into a more atmospheric mood. This is not the heaviest album: the strings aren’t the beefiest, and the drums aren’t the fastest. But really, so what? This album single-handedly proves that metal is one of the most creative genres out there. Whenever someone you know laughs at heavy metal, this is the album to shut them up for good.

The only thing I didn’t like: at 6:00 of The Last Baron, there is a pathetic aping of Yes circa 1974. One wonders how it got past quality control.

They played the album from A to Z last winter, and it was a great show. The songs were integral, except for some of the vocals (which is understandable), and the presence of the band on stage was so powerful and tight that it’s hard to imagine any metal band pulling something similar off anytime soon. Or put another way, they raised the bar so high that this is what you now have to beat. good luck.

 

Morgan Harrington, from Metallica to the Ether

Every night, they showed up at a different arena and played their catalog; then they packed their stuff and moved on to the next arena.

On October 17, 2009 Metallica performed at the John Paul Jones Arena, in Charlottesville, VA. Another arena, another concert. Great show.

 

Except that Morgan went missing.

I was there at the concert, drinking beer with my wife as Morgan vanished. Just drinking beer, only worrying about how I could game the system to get another beer despite the draconian quota of 4 drinks for the night.

We were legion that night, but she was one of us and she’s gone. The metal community is legion and she was with us.

When you stop and think about it, that night Morgan simply ran out of luck.

She could have been your girlfriend, your friend, your sister, the georgous girl you only had a glimpse of. She was your chick, just short on luck.

Metallica  has offered 50K in addition to the 100K that Morgan’s family has managed to raise. It’s $150,000 waiting for you, if you can help find her.

And I can only think of Nevermore’s song…

“Nevermore to feel the pain
The words fall out like fire
Just believe when you can’t believe anymore”

Contact InformationTip Line: (434) 352-3467 State Police E-Mail: bci-appomattox@vsp.virginia.gov General: info@findmorgan.com

www.findmorgan.com

More Metal, less tattoo-cry-baby-soft-rock

Is it me? My ears tell me that SiriusXM have been playing real stuff more frequently. I think I will cry. I am a very sensitive human being.

 

Ok, fuck that.

 

The percentage of soft, anal-retentive bands is still too high, but lately SiriusXM have been playing some real extreme metal. More power to them!!!

Cop eats pot, thinks he’s dead and call 911

I can’t resist:

 

 

Thanks to Failblog for the link!

Song for Sarah

This is not a metal song, but it’s pretty funny:

Roadrunner United DVD coming soon

Roadrunner will issue a DVD of the famous Roadrunner United show celegrating 20 years of the label’s support for metal on December 9. Yet, Roadrunner is now so into metalcore that ay mention of the label is enough to provoke gasps of anticipated profits for sellout bands, and gastric spasms for the rest of us. The Roadrunner United CD is interesting, but unequal; however as Metalsucks reports, (almost) all the big names from Roadrunner’s history are on the DVD, so it will be a must-have for all of us.

…and Christian bands suck big time.